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Following are excerpts from two press releases of the President of the United
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States. I recieved complete copies of these from John Lear and excerpted the
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portion of interest.
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Jim Delton
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December 4, 1985 - 10:17 AM - Remarks of the President To Fallston High School
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Students and Faculty. (Fallston, Maryland)
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The President talked about his recent meeting with Gorbachev in Geneva, SDI,
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people-to-people exchanges, and having no illusions about the Soviets. The
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two paragraphs of the remarks are the following:
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I couldn't but -- one point in our discussions privately with General
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Secretary Gorbachev -- when you stop to think that we're all God's children,
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wherever we may live in the world, I couldn't help but slay to him, just think
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how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly
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there was a threat to this from some other species from another planet outside
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in the universe. We'd forget all the little local differences that we have
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between our countries and we would find out once and for all that we really
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are all human beings here on this earth together.
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Well I don't suppose we can wait for some alien race to come down and
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threaten us. But I think that between us we can bring about that realization.
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Thank you all. God bless you all. (Applause.)
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September 21, 1987 - 11:05 am EDT -Text of Remarks by the President to the
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42nd General Assembly of the United Nations. (New York, NY)
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President talked about his vision for the future, recent change in leadership
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in the Philipines, benefits of freedom, the problems in the Middle East,
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Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Nuclear arms reductions, Human Rights, and in his
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third to the last paragraph said:
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In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much
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unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal
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threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly
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our differences world-wide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from
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outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among
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us? What could be more alien than war and the threat of war?
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